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Show 24 FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT gogy and Herbartian ideas will be given special attention. Lectures on Col. Parker and others. McMurry's General methods and De Garmo's Essentials of Methods as texts. Three hours per week throughout the year. PSYCHOLOGY AND LOGIC. Psychology.The subjects of consciousness, sensation and nervous system, instinct and habit, emotion and will, are discussed. Students of history and literature, as well as those preparing to teach, will find this study profitable. Halleck's Psychology and James' Briefer Course. Three hours per week throughout the year. Logic.The primary forms of thought, and inductive and deductive reasoning will be studied. Jevon's Logic.Three hours per week, second half year. LANGUAGES. Latin I.The aim in this course is to acquire an elementary knowledge of Latin grammar and a sufficient vocabulary to read Caesar with some ease. Collar and Daniell's Beginners' Latin Book, and selections from Hazzard's Eutropius. Five hours per week throughout the year. Latin II.Biographical selections from Latin authors and an equivalent of four books of Caesar's Gallic War are read. Considerable attention is paid to Latin syntax and indirect discourse, and composition exercises, based upon the text, are given. Greenough's Second Year Latin, and Daniell's Composition. Five hours per week throughout the year. WEBER STAKE ACADEMY. 25 Latin III.Cicero's four orations against Cataline, and the oration pro poeta Archia, are critically studied. Numerous exercises in prose composition, based on the text, are given. Allen and Greenough's New Cicero. Four hours per week throughout the year. Latin IV.Six books of Virgil's AEneid are translated. Greenough's Virgil. Three hours per week throughout the year. German I.Dreyspring's Cumulative Method and Keller's German Reader, with drill in conversation. Five hours per week throughout the year. German II.Brandt's German Reader, Schiller's Wilhelm Tell and Nathan der Weise; also practical drill in conversation and composition. Three hours per week throughout the year. German III.Goethe's Faust I. Schiller's Marie Stuart, and Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm. As in the previous year, special attention will be given to practical conversation and composition. Three hours per week throughout the year. ENGLISH AND LITERATURE. Grammar and Classics.In this course, special attention will be given to the technical study of the principles of English Grammar and to work in Com-position. The critical study of selections from standard English and American authors will be an important feature of this Course. Whitney's Essentials, and Beuhler's Exercises in English. Five hours per week throughout the year. Rhetoric.This course consists of a thorough study of the elementary principles of rhetoric as given |